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Jacques Roumani Research Files on Libya
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Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) was a Middle East & North Africa analyst and Libya specialist and author. He earned a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and graduate degrees from Princeton University. Roumani worked at the World Bank in Washington for 15 years, one of which was from Iran, Hebrew University's Truman Institute for Peace, Bar-Ilan University, Inter-American Development Bank, and the University of Maryland. He received a Fulbright award, the MacArthur Foundation Middle East Peace research award, a World Bank Sabbatical Award, and was the author of numerous publications about Muslims and Jews in Libya. Roumani was married to scholar of Sephardic literature and author Judith Roumani.
This collection consists of research files of scholar and author Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) on Libya during the period of Italian colonization. They primarily include government reports and correspondence, both original records (largely carbon copies) and photocopies of original records from Italian ministries such as Le Reconquista Militare and Istituzione del Ministero delle Colonie that document Italian administration and Libyan political, religious, and social activities. Records include British occupying force orders, Italian decrees and political military documents, instructions for negotiations, citizenship, land administration, laws, property confiscation, and information regarding the Senusiyya. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, maps, copies of articles, and Roumani's notes. While most of the materials are in Italian, some are in Arabic or English.
The collection's description is primarily based on an appraisal inventory as well as some description by Jacques Roumani.
Topics that are explicitly associated with particular folders may also be represented elsewhere in the collection.
The order of the files as they arrived to the Library was maintained.
Gift of Judith Roumani in 2018 (AM 2022-137).
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Many materials include rusty pins and staples.
This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in June 2022. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in June 2022.
Four publications/offprints were removed from the collection during 2022 processing.
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Place
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Faith Charlton
- Finding Aid Date
- 2022
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The collection is open for research
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Collection Inventory
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Topics and organizations documented include Libyan rebels, Italian settlers from Tunisia, Istituzione del Ministero delle Colonie, and La Riconquista Militare, among others.
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Internal files have titles such as Cirenaica Situazione 1919, and Al-Abiar meeting, 1921.
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Baruni, Muntasser, Kekhiya, Gargani, Question of the Gebel
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Includes documentation of agreement with Idris
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Zueitina negotiations
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Photocopy of a publication in Arabic
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Tripolitania, Baruni
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Citizenship, land administration, organic laws
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Includes report to Amendola
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Includes Caroselli report, "Libya in War and the European Peace" 1918; Instructions for Negotiations with Libyans, 1925; and a booklet on Idris in Arabic, among other materials
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In Italian and Arabic; Includes the report,"Relazione sugli Avvenimenti Verificatisi in Bengasi nel Periodo 18 Novembre - 30 Gennaio 1941-1942"
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Concerning the general political situation and Italian policies, including Governor Volpi's arrière-pensées
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Concerning Italian and Indigenous communities and includes scholarly articles such as Alberto Petrovich, "Capitale e uomo nelle tre fasi della colonizzazione metropolitana," (1939), newspaper articles, and documents.
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Various newsletters; Benghazi; Viaggio di Amendola
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Includes orders by British occupying forces, December to February 1941-42, in Benghazi; propaganda campaign by Italian government directed at Arabs, 1942; Some documents are in English, some translated into Italian; Italian reports on events; looting and Italian farms; and documents from 1947 concerning compensation for Libyan students.
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Bound typscript with handwritten annotations; includes Italian colonial ministries documents.
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